kml_twitter: Kimili Twitter Timeline

I’m happy to announce that I’ve released a new plugin for Textpattern – Kimili Twitter Timeline.

It’s a simple, highly configurable plugin that pulls in the latest tweets from your public Twitter timeline and displays them on your site. As far as I could see, this functionality was already available for a number of other CMS, but Textpattern users weren’t getting in on any of that love—until now, that is.

Some of the features of Kimili Twitter Timeline include:

Specify the number of tweets to display

Display your Twitter Avatar

Hashtag linking within tweets

Tweet caching

Graceful error handling

Configurable HTML output

Display multiple timelines on a single page

So if you’re a Twitter user with a Textpattern site, point your browser to the Kimili Twitter Timeline Homepage to find out all the details and download the plugin.

Re: kml_twitter: Kimili Twitter Timeline

This plugin is great. My initial test on my dev installation has yielded mixed results: the tag recognizes my username, and shows my latest update, but no matter what number I use in the count attribute, I only get one item:

Re: kml_twitter: Kimili Twitter Timeline

John -

Try waiting for the plugin cache to expire or simply delete the cache file in /textpattern/cache/. If you make changes to the tag attributes, they don’t actually take until it re-requests your tweets from Twitter, which only happens when there’s no cache file or the cache file is older than cache_life setting, which defaults to 10 minutes.